2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 25 February 2017
Peter Kay joins Let It Shine
25/02/2017 … PETER KAY is to be a guest judge on the final of BBC One’s Let It Shine tonight.
Brett Goldstein cast in another US comedy
Workplace sitcom *is* rocket science...
25/02/2017 … Brett Goldstein has landed a regular role in a new US sitcom.
Fri 24 February 2017
Netflix signs Tracy Morgan
New stand-up special for 30 Rock star
24/02/2017 … Netflix has signed 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan to make a new stand-up special.
© BBC Detectorists 'might be coming back'
More grist for the series 3 rumour mill
24/02/2017 … Mackenzie Crook comedy Detectorists looks set to return, one of its stars has hinted.
The world's worst golfer, coming to cinemas
Simon Farnaby working on new script
24/02/2017 … Yonderland star Simon Farnaby is making a film about a hopeless golfer who blagged his way into the British Open, Chortle can reveal.
'Then I started crying on stage...'
24/02/2017 … • 'When people go to a comedy show, there's an expectation that they wanna forget about things, but fuck that, you've got cats on YouTube now, you can watch that…
BBC launches 'millennial relationship' comedy
24/02/2017 … BBC Three is releasing a new short-form comedy series about a relationship between two millennials.